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HPR volume 8 issue 34: news

Updated 23 December 2014

Chemical Hazards and Poisons Report issue 24

The PHE Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards has published Chemical Hazards and Poisons Report 24 [1] comprising the following articles presented under four main thematic categories:

Incident response

바카라 사이트¢ two articles describing the public health risk assessments undertaken following a large fire 바카라 사이트“ reputedly the largest ever in the region 바카라 사이트“ at a paper and plastics materials recycling and waste management centre in the West Midlands of England in June 2013

바카라 사이트¢ lessons learned following an atmospheric release, from a chemical plant in northern France in January 2013, of a very low odour-threshold chemical that presented no public health risk but generated significant public concern in southern England

바카라 사이트¢ sewers, culverts and other underground pipes 바카라 사이트“ an under-recognised pathway for chemical exposures in acute incidents

바카라 사이트¢ acute risks from contaminated land

바카라 사이트¢ MSC Flaminia 바카라 사이트“ public health assessment and contribution to the places of refuge assessment

Emergency preparedness and response

바카라 사이트¢ collaborative working with local resilience forums to prevent an environmental major incident

바카라 사이트¢ transition to new health arrangements: Public Health England바카라 사이트™s exercise assurance programme

바카라 사이트¢ two articles concerned with PHE바카라 사이트™s role in implementation of the COMAH Regulations, including the development of off-site emergency plans

바카라 사이트¢ implementation of the EU Decision 1082/2013 on cross-border threats to health from biological, chemical and environmental events

바카라 사이트¢ Alerting, Reporting and Surveillance System for Chemical Health Threats, Phase III (ASHTIII) 바카라 사이트“ update report

바카라 사이트¢ European Chemical Emergency Network (ECHEMNET) 바카라 사이트“ update report

바카라 사이트¢ the development of tools to assist with evaluation of recovery strategies following CBRN events

바카라 사이트¢ assessment of the 바카라 사이트 Decontamination Service framework for CBRN scenarios

바카라 사이트¢ impact of response actions on recovery 바카라 사이트“ the importance of a consolidated approach to UK resilience

바카라 사이트¢ a quick tour of social media and emergency preparedness, resilience and response

Environmental and toxicological research

바카라 사이트¢ estimating local mortality burdens associated with long-term exposure to particulate air pollution

바카라 사이트¢ Environment and Health Atlas for England and Wales: a printed and online tool

바카라 사이트¢ asbestos: review of toxicology and epidemiology and an approach for human health risk assessment of low level environmental exposures

바카라 사이트¢ use of fumigants in the transport of goods by sea 바카라 사이트“ health impact

바카라 사이트¢ risk communication in non-infectious disease cluster investigations: a summary of the literature

Natural hazards, extreme events and climate change

바카라 사이트¢ the oak processionary caterpillar and public health: the Dutch approach

바카라 사이트¢ improving the response to flooding: changes implemented in Gloucestershire since the summer 2007 floods

바카라 사이트¢ effective flood resilience in health providers: flooding at a major NHS Blood and Transplant facility

Reference

  1. Chemical Hazards and Poisons Report issue 24, 28 August 2014, ISSN 1745-3763.